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Representing the Inkwell Awards, committee member Erick Korpi appeared at the Kubert School for their annual scholarship awards ceremony which took place on Friday May 2 to personally hand the 2014 Dave Simons Inkwell Memorial Scholarship Award of $1000 to this year’s student recipient Aysegul Sinav. Originally from Turkey, she is the fifth award recipient since the scholarship was created by the Inkwell Awards in 2010 following the passing of artist and committee member Dave Simons in 2009. Erick spoke briefly before presenting the financial award to Aysegul alongside instructors and VPs Adam and Andy Kubert. Dave’s sister Bette Simons will have a statement to be read for her at the Inkwell Awards live awards ceremony at Heroes Con June 21st. For more info about Dave Simons or the previous Kubert School student recipients from the last four years you can find that here.

Inking is the art of enhancing an illustration through the means of redrawing pencil lines with ink and its related tools. This enhancing, or 'ink editing', would elaborate in the areas of, but not limited to, weight, space, depth, definition, contrast, texture, composition and design. The Inkwell Awards promotes this often overlooked and under-appreciated art form by serving as a source of education for inking and recognizing excellence and achievement of individual artists working in the field of comic book sequential illustration.